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Firm Watch


After 10 years at the legal wheel for auto paint chain Earl Scheib Inc., David Sunkin jump-started a career in private practic...


Litigation


When Occidental College student Jason Antebi hosted his own talk show on the campus radio station, he offended students with a...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for April 25

Apr. 26, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

HOSPITALITY CORONADO ISLAND - SCP Coronado LLC purchased the 41,700-square-foot Coronado Plaza at 1330 Orange Ave. from G&...


Corporate


Virtual Data Rooms Make File Management Easier

Apr. 26, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

When Larry Braun began his career as a corporate attorney, the Internet didn't exist. As a result, neither did e-mail or virtu...


Litigation


Thomas Holman claims that his employers gave him a dangerous painting job after he complained of racial discrimination. He fel...


Criminal


Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Criminal trials are not a spectator sport. As recently noted by the 9th ...


Entertainment & Sports


Moonlighting Lawyer Article Wastes Space

Apr. 26, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - (Regarding "Attorney Doubles as Porn Star," April 20 Los Angeles Daily Journal; "Lawyer Keeps Clients W...


Family


Stop The Yammering, Wake Up And Smell The Democracy

Apr. 26, 2005
By Contributing Writer

Letter to the Editor - I am sick to death of reading the seemingly endless hooey streaming from the word processors of fools a...


Firm Watch


What really impresses corporate attorney Richard Grant about Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket is that it packs q...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - Here's a pop quiz for all the true patriots in the group: How many times does the word ...


Judges and Judiciary


Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - I have a dream. That one day Roe v. Wade , as dreadful a decision as Dred Scott , wi...


Firm Watch


Tax Lawyer Scurries Back to Heller Ehrman

Apr. 26, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Mark Windfeld-Hansen realized almost immediately that he made the wrong decision when he left Heller, Ehrman,...


Criminal


Defender Suggests Instructions Confused Jury

Apr. 26, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury may have been confused about a judge's instructions when they convicted a Brinks security gu...


Law Practice


It's no 9 to 5

Apr. 26, 2005
By Stefanie Knapp

EXTRA Feature - Editors' note: Daily Journal EXTRA recently assembled a group of high-ranking in-house counsel who are women t...


Litigation


Staffers Share $24 Million Overtime-Pay Accord

Apr. 26, 2005
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - About 30,000 employees at an El Segundo technology company will share $24 million under an overtime-pay settlem...


Intellectual Property


Medtronic OKs $1.35 Billion Payout

Apr. 26, 2005
By Tim Willert

SANTA ANA - A Los Angeles surgeon who sued medical giant Medtronic Inc. over the use of his inventions and won has agreed to ...


Government


Schwarzenegger Picks General Counsel of VA

Apr. 26, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Robert David Wilson, a state deputy attorney general in Los Angeles and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, has been appo...


Judges and Judiciary


Christian Telecast Criticizing Judges Concerns Attorneys

Apr. 26, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A Christian telecast set for broadcast Sunday to criticize judges as out-of-control liberal activists has caused ...


Appellate Practice


Panel OKs Rule on Citing Unpublished Opinions

Apr. 26, 2005
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - An advisory committee on rules for the federal judiciary has again voted to recommend the federal courts allow l...


Government


LOS ANGELES - As chairman of the last three winning campaigns for Los Angeles mayor, attorney Bill Wardlaw cemented himself as...


Firm Watch


Diversity Advocate Goes to Foley

Apr. 26, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - For several years, Teveia Barnes worked exclusively with pro bono clients at her small law clinic in San Rafa...


Litigation


Palm Springs is home to a vibrant gay community. But, according to a recently filed suit, the city's Police Department is bias...


Firm Watch


Litigator Leaves His Own Firm to Join Liner

Apr. 23, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Litigator Michael Novicoff jumped from his own firm, Reuben & Novicoff, to Westwood's Liner Yankelevitz Sun...


Solo and Small Firms


Attorneys Bet on Boxing's Revival

Apr. 23, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - James J. Corbett, the great Irish-American boxer known as Gentleman Jim, was born in San Francisco and fought ...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for April 22

Apr. 23, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Phil Bollman purchased a 6,700-square-foot industrial building at 977 Enterprise Ave. from an undisclose...


Government


Whistle-Blower Air Marshal Sues

Apr. 23, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A Southland federal air marshal, grounded last year after criticizing an article in People magazine that he bel...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - California law abhors forfeiture, and when it comes to employee wages, contract terms ca...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Fredrick Booke - In Moncharsh v. Heily & Blas , 3 Cal.4th 1 (1992), the...


Constitutional Law


Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the press from most forms of government...


International


Book Review - By Justice Richard M. Mosk - A few decades ago, there were few lawyers who specialized in arbitration - either d...